The Vincennes Sun-Commercial from Vincennes, Indiana (2024)

October 21, 1997

Publication:

The Vincennes Sun-Commerciali

Location:

Vincennes, Indiana

Issue Date:

Tuesday, October 21, 1997

Page:

7

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VINCENNES SUN COMMERCIAL TUESDAY OCT 21 1997 A7 At 66 Della Reese has series TV movie autobiography and still sings By Bob Thomas Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES At a time when most Other singing stars of the 1950s are retired or playing the nostalgia circuit 66 year old Della Reese remains at the top of her game Consider the evidence: by an the CBS series in which she appears as a supervisor of angels recently scored No 2 in the Nielsen ratings In the three years she has been nominated three times for Emmys as supporting actress She stars with Meredith Baxter Patricia Heaton and Anna Chlumsky in a CBS movie in the airing 8 pm EST Sunday autobiography Along the is being published by Putnamthis month She continues with her ministry at the church she founded 16 years ago in Los Angeles flying in from the Salt Lake City locations of by an every weekend She still sings Her latest album: of My Best riends Are the based on her 27 city tour with a revue The only glitch in this picture is Miss dispute with CBS She told a news conference earlier this month that by an costars Roma Downey and John Dye received pay raises of 100 percent and 30 percent respectively while she was offered only 25 percent The network responded that her pay was less because she was granted a lighter work load including time off to attend to her church duties Her husband manager ranklin Lett said the problem was unresolved In Along the written with Lett and Mim Eichler Miss Reese tells of growing up in Detroit with a loving mother and a father who worked all week in a steel mill and then disappeared on weekends The mother in reality Della was later told her grandmother loved to go to the movies where young Deloreese Patricia Early first learned to perform She imitated the movie stars to entertain her father Miss first experience with racial discrimination came at 13 when she toured the South with Mahalia singing group She soon learned she had to go to the rear window of a cafe to get service and to use the outdoors for a bathroom because there was none for blacks Years later when she was a headlining singer she encountered discrimination in Las Vegas those days black entertainers could work on the strip but we go in the casino nor could we eat or sleep in those she writes only place to stay was all the way across town at a hotel aptly named the Dust One night while appearing in Vegas with an Ed Sullivan show she able to order a cheeseburger in her dressing room until Sullivan himself intervened Every night thereafter Sullivan and his wife took her to an all white Vegas restaurant enduring the withering stares from other diners Sullivan was among the many angels Della Reese has encountered along the way They helped her through racial discrimination an abusive first man a near fatal accident with a glass doo an aneurysm the loss of $253000 to a crooked lawyer and a $485000 back tax bill from the IRS (she settled for $100000) or a quarter century Della Reese ranked among the top song stylists along with Ella itzgerald Sarah Vaughn Dinah Washington and a few others Then musical tastes changed and night clubs went out of vogue Miss Reese sought another line of work When did the acting take over? know that it took she replied by phone from Salt Lake City had good training for it I was always a stylist a lyricist became acquainted with the words in order to convince you I must believe in what singing what acting is: believing was just like one thing flowing into another It was finding another rhythm so you could take the music She admitted that being accepted as an actress come easy: a long time I was the woman who owned the club where the star came in after he broke up with his Miss Reese recalled did that for a long time: Reuben Cannon a casting director gave me a speaking part on a I worked my way up step by step bit by Her lusty manner and sharp delivery made her a favorite on such sitcoms as and the (with Jack Albertson and reddy Prinze) Royal Takes and Dramatic appearances include and Miss Reese is proud of by an which airs at 8 pm Eastern on Sundays The corporate world thought that action and (sexuality) would make money If they got involved in anything spiritual they would end up offending somebody: If the Catholics liked it the Muslims If the Muslims liked it the Jews wouldn't If the Baptists liked it and so forth and so on they wanted to avoid it like the plague What by an did was show that you could have spirituality and make money So we literally changed the face of Elsewhere in television HOPE: Goldie Hawn makes her directorial debut with the TNT movie premiering this week on the cable channel The coming of age story set in the 1960s South stars Jena Malone as a precocious youngster who feels stifled in her small town: Young Lilly Kate also faces problems both personal and political including a dysfunctional family and racism Hawn balances the tragic and comedic elements effectively and draws winning performances from Malone and co stars Christine Lahti Jeffrey Sams JT Walsh Catherine and Mary Ellen Trainor The showtimes include 10 pm EST Thursday and 1 1 am EST Sunday Marmaduke The amily Circus Snuffy Smith PaJ cv at Ovi I a 02 1997 United eature Syndicate Inc i I we chased a bakery truck then we chased a meat truck then we chased an ice cream truck I I 2lX 0'997 Bit Keene oy Cowlee Syria inc they have school stuff in Heaven do answer 2 3 1 12 15 21 27 28 29 B2 30 34 33 36 38 39 42 50 48 49 53 51 I I BN Crossword ne Shelter 52 ACROSS 1 Land: abbr 38 One SPeninSu Clampett lar st 41 8 Lets the tears flow 12 manr (B Simpson) 13 Author Dbighton 14 Duel tool 15 opus 17 Dennis Miller specialty 18 Gun lobby grp 19 Shoe dream customer 21 Shackles 24 Area unit: abbr 25 Vicinity 26 Numbers game? 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